Leviticus 11

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1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, saying to them:
2 Speak unto the children of Israel: These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts on the earth:
3 Every animal that parts the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and chews the cud, eat;
4 shall ye not eat of those that chew the cud and have cloven hooves: the camel, because it chews the cud but he divideth not the hoof, is unclean to you;
5 And the coney, because he chews the cud but he divideth not the hoof, is unclean to you,
6 And the hare, because it chews the cud but he divideth not the hoof, is unclean to you;
7 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof and hoof incision deep, but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you;
8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and they do not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

9 Of all [animals] that are in the water, so eat: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat;
10 And all that have not fins and scales, whether in the seas and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing in the waters, an abomination to you;
eleven they shall be an abomination unto you: of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcasses despise;
12 all [animals] that have not fins and scales in the waters, is an abomination to you.
13 The birds also despise so: the eagle, vulture and the sea eagle
14 kite and the falcon after its kind,
15 Every raven after his kind;
16 the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull and the hawk after his kind,
17 owl, the fisher and the ibis,
18 swans, pelicans and vultures,
19 herons, Zuya after its kind, the hoopoe and the bat.

20 All [the animals] winged insects that go upon all four [legs] an abomination to you;
21 of every creeping thing that goeth on four [feet], may eat those which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
22 So eat of them: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.
23 Any [other] flying creeping things, which have four feet shall be an abomination;
24 these ye shall be unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening;
25 and anyone who takes their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
26 Every animal which parts the hoof but there is a deep cut, and that does not chew the cud, is unclean to you: whoever touches them shall be unclean.
27 Of all four, those animals that walk on paws are unclean to you: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening;
28 who will take the corpse of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: they are unclean to you.
29 And these are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the mole, the mouse, the lizard according to its kind,
thirty ferret, the chameleon, fly, homet and chameleon -
31 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them dead, shall be unclean until the evening.
32 And yet, on that fall is one of them dead, every vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, every thing that is used for the work, will be unclean: the water must be put, and be unclean until the evening, then be clean;
33 whereinto any of them falls into any earthen vessel, whatever is in it shall be unclean, and the most [vessel] break.
34 Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which water [from this] [vessel], shall be unclean, and any drink that may be drunk in every [such] vessel shall be unclean.
35 All that will drop anything from their carcass shall be unclean: oven and hearth shall break down, they are unclean; and they shall be unclean unto you;
36 a fountain or pit, plenty of water, shall be clean; and whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean.
37 And if anything of their carcass falls on any seed that is sown, it shall be clean;
38 But if any water be put upon the seed will fall on him any thing out of their corpses, it is unclean for you.
39 And when he dies any animal which you may eat, he that touches the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the evening;
40 and he that eateth of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening; and he that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
41 Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination to you, should not eat [it];
42 just crawling on its belly, and just walking on four legs, and mnogonozhnyh of animals that creep upon the earth, you shall not eat, for they are an abomination;

43 You shall not defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps and do not make yourself unclean through them, to be defiled by them you,
44 for I am - the Lord your God: Be holy, for I am holy; and do not defile yourselves with any swarming, crawling on the ground,
45 for I am - Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. Shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
46 This is the law of the beasts, and of fowl, and of every living creature in the waters, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth,
47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and animals that can be eaten and the animal that should not be there.

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